Tasty by Kelis

Tasty, Kelis's third album, arrived on 5 December 2003 through Star Trak and Arista, and it was the moment she stopped being a critics' darling nobody bought and became a star. Kelis ran the show as executive producer, bringing back her old allies the Neptunes and adding Raphael Saadiq, Dallas Austin, André 3000, Rockwilder and Dame "Grease" Blackmon to the kitchen. Saadiq, André 3000 and Nas turn up on the mic, too.

"Milkshake" is the one everybody knows: a slinky, minimal, lip-smacking groove that made its point and got to number three on the Hot 100. "Trick Me", "Millionaire" and "In Public" followed it out. "Flashback" was lifted from Wanderland, which North America never got to hear at the time. The critics loved the whole spread, which sounds like R&B raiding every other genre's fridge, and it debuted at number 27 in the US with 93,600 copies sold in its first week, her best ever there.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.